Basilica of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Santa Maria in Ara Coeli is a medieval basilica that crowns the northern summit of the Capitoline Hill, reached by a steep flight of 124 marble steps commissioned by the…
Palazzo Chigi
Begun in 1562 for the Aldobrandini family on the north side of Piazza Colonna, Palazzo Chigi was carried forward by Giacomo Della Porta, Carlo Maderno and, in its later phases,…
Santa Maria la Nova
Santa Maria la Nova is a Franciscan monastic complex in the historic centre of Naples, founded in 1279 after Charles I of Anjou demolished the order’s earlier seat to build…
Punta della Dogana
Punta della Dogana stands at the tip of Dorsoduro, where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal opposite Piazza San Marco. Built between 1677 and 1682 by Giuseppe Benoni as…
Vittoriano (Altar of the Fatherland)
The Vittoriano, formally the National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II, was designed by the Marche-born architect Giuseppe Sacconi after winning the second national competition in 1882, and was solemnly inaugurated…
Uffizi Galleries
The Uffizi is a U-shaped Renaissance palace on the Arno in Florence, commissioned in 1560 by Cosimo I de’ Medici from Giorgio Vasari to house the magistracies of the Tuscan…
Teatro di San Carlo
The Teatro di San Carlo is the oldest continuously active opera house in the world, inaugurated in Naples on 4 November 1737 — the name day of King Charles VII…
Coppedè District
The Coppedè District is a small, unrepeatable architectural enclave in the Trieste-Salario area of Rome, designed by the Florentine architect Gino Coppedè (1866–1927) between 1915 and 1927. Across roughly seventeen…
Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne
Commissioned by Pietro Massimo and built between 1532 and 1536 by the Sienese architect Baldassarre Peruzzi, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne rose from the ruins left by the Sack of Rome…
Gallery of Geographical Maps
A 120-metre corridor inside the Vatican Museums, lined with forty monumental cartographic frescoes painted between 1580 and 1583 under the patronage of Pope Gregory XIII. The cycle was designed by…